June 28, 2023

“But they’re self-segregating!”

Hi. Here I am again. Gently working after some troubled times.

And I am back with a story that is tying my recent complicated housing situation to our regular conversation: an othering experience I had in the dorm that was my temporary home until I found a permanent one. I believe this was a good – albeit subtle – illustration of how unconscious bias and excluding behaviour by a dominant group mislead folks to think that “minorities just won’t integrate”…

“But they’re self-segregating!” – Clearing The Way

We are othering people not only because of race or gender, also because of cultural backgrounds and cognitive profiles.